The UK motor industry is to develop best practice guidelines on sustainability principles for its supply chain.
The industry’s trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), has made the pledge as part of a review of its overall sustainability strategy.
It will now consider how best to develop social performance indicators for annual publication in its industry-wide social, economic and environmental report.
SMMT’s second such report, issued recently, also outlines plans to widen the industry’s stakeholder engagement activities, which began in 2001 with a series of meetings and an opinion survey. This year it says the 18 corporate signatories to its ‘automotive strategy for sustainable development’, launched in March 2000, will begin ‘multi-stakeholder consultation on single issues’ rather than just on general sustainability topics.
The 18 signatories, which generate half of the UK sector’s £45billion ($64bn) turnover, include BMW, Dunlop Tyres, Ford and Jaguar.